Margaret MacMillan has a doctorate from St Antony's College, Oxford. Formerly Provost of Trinity College and Warden of St Antony's College, she is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. In 2017 she was made a Companion to the Order of Canada, and in 2018 she was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour. She has written several books including Peacemakers (also titled Paris, 1919), which won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize and eight other prizes throughout the world.

Lively, fascinating and provocative. - ChoiceEngagingly written and well-researched - Stand To MagazineMargaret MacMillian deservedly won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize for this book that has been reprinted in timely fashion - BelgraviaDeserving winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, this pacey and racy account of the statesmen who reshaped the world at the Paris conference of 1919 puts the dash back into diplomatic history - THE INDEPENDENT MagazineEvery peacemaker sent to determine the future of Iraq should regard it as an essential piece of luggage - THE GUARDIAN"Enthralling ... detailed, fair, unfailingly lively ... full of brilliant pen-portraits." Allan Massie. - Daily TelegraphExactly the sort of book I like: written with pace and flavoured with impudence based on solid scholarship. - Sunday Times"A fascinating piece of history." Tony Blair. - Guardian

Margaret MacMillan has a doctorate from St Antony's College, Oxford. Formerly Provost of Trinity College and Warden of St Antony's College, she is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. In 2017 she was made a Companion to the Order of Canada, and in 2018 she was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour. She has written several books including Peacemakers (also titled Paris, 1919), which won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize and eight other prizes throughout the world.

Lively, fascinating and provocative. - ChoiceEngagingly written and well-researched - Stand To MagazineMargaret MacMillian deservedly won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize for this book that has been reprinted in timely fashion - BelgraviaDeserving winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, this pacey and racy account of the statesmen who reshaped the world at the Paris conference of 1919 puts the dash back into diplomatic history - THE INDEPENDENT MagazineEvery peacemaker sent to determine the future of Iraq should regard it as an essential piece of luggage - THE GUARDIAN"Enthralling ... detailed, fair, unfailingly lively ... full of brilliant pen-portraits." Allan Massie. - Daily TelegraphExactly the sort of book I like: written with pace and flavoured with impudence based on solid scholarship. - Sunday Times"A fascinating piece of history." Tony Blair. - Guardian

Margaret MacMillan has a doctorate from St Antony's College, Oxford. Formerly Provost of Trinity College and Warden of St Antony's College, she is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. In 2017 she was made a Companion to the Order of Canada, and in 2018 she was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour. She has written several books including Peacemakers (also titled Paris, 1919), which won the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize and eight other prizes throughout the world.

Lively, fascinating and provocative. - ChoiceEngagingly written and well-researched - Stand To MagazineMargaret MacMillian deservedly won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize for this book that has been reprinted in timely fashion - BelgraviaDeserving winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, this pacey and racy account of the statesmen who reshaped the world at the Paris conference of 1919 puts the dash back into diplomatic history - THE INDEPENDENT MagazineEvery peacemaker sent to determine the future of Iraq should regard it as an essential piece of luggage - THE GUARDIAN"Enthralling ... detailed, fair, unfailingly lively ... full of brilliant pen-portraits." Allan Massie. - Daily TelegraphExactly the sort of book I like: written with pace and flavoured with impudence based on solid scholarship. - Sunday Times"A fascinating piece of history." Tony Blair. - Guardian